Published:
11:54 AM May 1, 2021
Updated:
12:18 PM May 1, 2021
The fire damaged tennis pavilion in Heigham Park is still standing since the fire in 2019
- Credit: Sonya Duncan
More than a year after its pavilion was ravaged by arson and nearly four years after its tennis courts were locked shut, a community has been left wondering what is going on with its local park.
The fire in the tennis pavilion at Heigham Park in November 2019
- Credit: Ruth Lawes
A council spokesperson said work to install the new courts would begin in the summer for an autumn completion date, and that it also plans this summer to put out to tender the work to rebuild the pavilion.
“People have been very mindful of the Queen’s sorrow and the Royal Family’s sorrow; it is terrible to lose a lifelong partner and we remember the lifelong service that Prince Philip gave.
“People have been very mindful but today people have been out shopping and buying drinks, so I don’t think delivering letters is a mark of disrespect.
“Hopefully this is a respectful electoral run, I m sorry that other parties feel they have to point the finger.”
Steve Morphew, leader of the Labour group at Norfolk County Council and councillor for Catton Grove
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Bowers Avenue park has been shut due to the glass in the sandpits.
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A children s park, shut for months because council bosses could not afford to remove glass from its sandpits, is due to reopen by the summer.
Vandals left shattered glass strewn over two sandpits in Bowers Avenue park, in Mile Cross, Norwich, during the coronavirus lockdown last year.
It led to Norwich City Council closing the park. A sign on the gate stated it would have to remain shut due to the anti-social behaviour.
Bowers Avenue Park in Mile Cross.
- Credit: Archant
The council said that was because it did not have the money to remove and replenish the sand.